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Actress Shailene Woodley has recently opened up about her split from controversial New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
The 32-year-old The Descendants actress has been on the promotional tour for her new Starz series Three Women, which is based on the 2019 novel of the same name. During one particularly in-depth discussion, Woodley discussed how her split from Aaron Rodgers impacted her personality, saying that she’s now “uninterested in the performance of people.”
While she didn’t mention Rodgers by name, Woodley also chided herself for falling in love with “unavailability.” Other than dating Rodgers in the early 2020s, Woodley’s only other public relationship was with rugby player Ben Volavola from 2018 to 2020.
“I’m very uninterested in the performance of people at this moment in life. I’m uninterested in the external value that we put on everything. I find the performance of being something else in order to receive love or acceptance or work from others to be the ultimate form of soul death,” Woodley said in an interview with Bustle.
When asked by the publication what experiences have pushed her to this point, Woodley cites a “broken heart” — the Divergent franchise actor first began dating Rodgers in 2020 and got engaged the following year before splitting up in 2022. The actress hasn’t been publicly linked with anyone else since.
“Just a broken heart. A broken heart that healed and broke again. I fell in love over and over with unavailability. I’m very open as a human. I love easy, and I care easy, but I do not love lightly, and I do not care lightly,” she continued
“It’s really taken me a lot of time to understand that it’s not on me to fix or heal or do anything about [a relationship] other than protect the deep care and love that I have for the world and for my people. Ultimately, that has helped me walk away without the need to understand why certain things didn’t play out the way that I may have desired them to.”
After splitting with Woodley, Rodgers has been rumored to have been in relationships with a hippie influence chick who calls herself “Blu of Earth” (real name Charlotte Brereton), and Mallory Edens, the daughter of the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks.